Why do we humans get gassier as we age?
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Old person checking in – as I have gotten older I find I need to eat more fiber to keep the poop process working smoothly. As others have said, more fiber = more farts
Whaaaaat?
I thought you couldn’t heaaaaar …
Because we old folks knows that anything we do for any reason will piss you off… so a fart let er rip…
Decreased ability to digest lactose ?
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Do we? I have some friends with a 1 year old that kid farts all the time and loudly. I think as we get older we learn to control that and then by much older start to loose that ability again. Just if I had to guess.
We do? Where did you hear that?
Yeah…not sure that’s a fact. If anything older people may lose muscle tonus in the sphincter and be less able to control when they let one out. Plus, as others have said, they just don’t care. So they may release more often, but in still approximately the same volume.
If you eat fiber, you’ll fart, period. If you suddenly eat a lot more fiber than usual, you’ll fart more than usual, then go back to average. Pregnancy can put pressure on the lower intestinal tract, and cause them to slip out more often, but the volume of gas is roughly the same even then.
Fart.
It happens mostly with westernized diets which encourage poor gut biomes. High carbs and sugar, few fibers and foods that promote good bacteria, lots of yeast from breads and beer and sugar. My gas ended when I switched to a anti candida diet and unless I have xylitol I have no gas. My American grandparents always farted. Not so much in other countries I’ve lived in.
Gut motility slows as you age, lots of elderly need daily laxatives to stimulate bowel and stop constipation which makes them gassy.
Also the very young eat alot of wotsits and pasta (evidence=my toddler)
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